The development team also noticed the players' interest in releases that added large amounts of explorable territory. The puzzles feature a variety of different game mechanics some require the player to hit targets with lasers, and others allow building using blocks.Īnnounced in February 2016, the expansion was influenced by player feedback regarding the base game's dialogue system, which was not considered to be as successful as the other game mechanics.
Upon completing the quests in the game, the player is rewarded with bottle caps from Nuka-Cola bottles (the franchise's main fictional currency), and experience points. Far Harbor 's main gameplay consists of quests and puzzle sections. The game can be played in first-person or third-person perspective in either case, the player controls the protagonist throughout their investigation on The Island, a landmass off the coast of Maine. In the expansion, the player character is hired as a private investigator to search for a missing girl in the isolated seaside community of Far Harbor. The game is set in the year 2287, in the aftermath of a nuclear war that destroys most of the United States. Far Harbor was released on for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One as downloadable content (DLC). Fallout 4: Far Harbor is an expansion pack for the 2015 video game Fallout 4, developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
